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From the Independent: “A new class of drugs has been identified that slow the ageing process in mice, alleviating symptoms of frailty and extending a healthy lifespan. If their effect on humans is as marked as it is on animal

Two significant news hits on Alzheimer’s recently. One team in Australia is experimenting (on mice) with ultrasound to clear up plaque buildup and the other team (in the US) is using an already approved drug commonly used to treat epilepsy

Please tune in to Sirius XM (Channel 121) this Saturday at 9am PT (12pm ET) to listen to a longevity discussion between me and Dr. Anthony Atala of Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

This is such a great story, and really only the beginning of what will be possible outside of the traditional health sector. Thank-you awesome engineers and tinkerers! Also, see this adorable video of Robert Downey Jr. helping out with the

It was a pleasure to meet Dr. Craig Venter at Stanford this week. As you can imagine, he had strong views and a huge amount of energy. I’m super-interested in all of his work, but was surprised to find out

I spent last weekend at Wake Forest University in NC at their annual TedX event. It was a great group of people, and I’m looking forward to posting links to all the talks when they are released.

A great story. And another example of how man is blending with machine. From the NY Daily News: “Zderad became the 15th person in the country, and the first in his home state, to receive the implanted sight device created

An interesting new way to study diseases of the brain. From MIT Tech Review: “A new method for growing human brain cells could unlock the mysteries of dementia, mental illness, and other neurological disorders.”

Lots of people I know will be interested in this. Here’s the story from the researchers at Sanford-Burnham. “We have developed a method using human pluripotent stem cells to create new cells capable of initiating human hair growth. The method

Yesterday, I visited with a bunch of scientists from UCSF’s Lim Lab. They had a cool simulation game to show how CAR-T therapy works. Essentially, you want to make your “T” cell recognize the cancer cell so it will kill